page_title: List of Assassin's Creed characters
section_title: Lawrence Washington
hierarchical_section_title: List of Assassin's Creed characters / Helix Player saga / Characters of Assassin's Creed Rogue / Lawrence Washington
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Lawrence Washington, older half-brother of George Washington
context_page_description: This list of characters from the Assassin's Creed franchise contains only characters that are considered part of Assassin's Creed canon. Some of them are completely fictional and some are partially based on real-world historical figures.
context_section_description: Lawrence Washington (1718–1752) was a sailor of the Royal Navy and high-ranking member of the Templar Order as well as being the older brother of George Washington. After serving the Royal Navy during the Battle of Cartagena de Indias, he was ordered along with George Monro by British Grand Master Reginald Birch in establishing Templar presence at the British Colonies and was promoted to Master Templar for his actions. When his brother, George, contracted smallpox, he sailed with him to Barbados in finding a cure as well as finding a First Civilization Temple where an artifact may be found. At the same time, the Assassin Vendredi disturbed the artifact, setting off the 1751 Port-au-Prince earthquake and Washington killed him while trying to escape. While returning to the colonies, he built Mount Vernon in memory of his officer, Edward Vernon, and contracted tuberculosis. Just before his death during a garden party, he told his Templar associates Samuel Smith, James Wardrop and Jack Weeks, to keep George out of the Templar cause as he had nothing to do with the order. Just as he was talking to his guests, he was killed by the Assassin, Shay Cormac, who was ashamed of murdering him since he was already dying which would later be one of the causes of his eventual defection to the Templars and the destruction of the Colonial Assassins.
caption: Lawrence Washington. Painted by Gustavus Hesselius, an itinerant painter working out of Annapolis, Maryland
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